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Ong's Orality-Literacy Publications

Long Bibliography

  A comprehensive but not exaustive bibliography of Walter J. Ong's publications on oral-written-print-electronic contrasts. Please see the introduction for more information. A shorter, select bibliography is also available.

“Ramus: Rhetoric and the Pre-Newtonian Mind.” (1952). Rpt. in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 209-27.

“Ramus and the Transit to the Modern Mind.” Modern Schoolman 32.4 (1955): 301-11; Rpt. in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 229-38.

“Ramus and the Transit to the Modern Mind.” (1954). Modern Schoolman 32.4 (1955): 301-11; Rpt. in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 229-38.

“Space, Space, and Intellect in Renaissance Symbolism.” Bibliotheque d' Humanisme et Renaissance 18 (1956): 222-39; Rpt. in The Barbarian Within: And Other Fugitive Essays and Studies. New York: MacMillan, 1962. 68-87; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 3: Further Essays, 1952-1990. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. 9-27.

“Secular Knowledge, Revealed Religion, and History.” Religious Education 52.5 (1957): 341-49; Rpt as "Secular Knowledge and Revealed Religion" in American Catholic Crossroads: Religious-Secular Encounters in the Modern World. New York: The Macmillian Company, 1959. 74-95.

“Grammar Today: 'Structure' in a Vocal World.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 43.4 (1957): 399-407; Rpt. as “Grammar and the Twentieth Century” in The Barbarian Within: And Other Fugitive Essays and Studies. New York: MacMillan, 1962. 164-176; Rpt. in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 247-59.

Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason. 1958. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2004.

“From Allegory to Diagram in the Renaissance Mind: A Study in the Significance of the Allegorical Tableau.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 17.4 (1959): 423-440.

“Evolution and Cyclicism in Our Time.” Thought 34 (1959-60): 547-68; Rpt. in Darwin's Vision and Christian Perspectives. Ed. Walter J. Ong. New York: Macmillan, 1960. 125-48; Rpt. in In the Human Grain: Further Explorations of Contemporary Culture. New York: Macmillan, 1967. 61-82; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 2: Supplementary Studies, 1946-1989. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992. 85-103.

“Wired for Sound: Teaching, Communications, and Technological Culture.” College English 21.5 (1960): 245-51; Rpt. in The Barbarian Within: And Other Fugitive Essays and Studies. New York: MacMillan, 1962. 220-29.

“Hostility, Literacy, and Webster III.” College English 26.2 (1964): 106-11. Rpt. in abridged form as “The Word in Chains” in In the Human Grain. New York: Macmillan, 1967. 52-59.

“Worship at the End of the Age of Literacy.” (1969). ; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 1. Selected Essays and Studies, 1952-1991. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992. 175-88.

“Communications Media and the State of Theology.” (1969). Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 1. Selected Essays and Studies, 1952-1991. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992. 154-74.

“Comment: Voice, Print, and Culture.” Journal of Typographic Research 4.1 (1970): 77-83.

“Ramist Method and the Commerical Mind.” Studies in the Renaissance 8 (1961): 155-72; Rpt. in Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971. 165-189.

“The Knowledge Explosion and the Sciences of Man.” American Benedictine Review 15.1 (1964): 1-13; Rpt as "The Knowledge Explosion in the Humanities" in In the Human Grain: Further Explorations of Contemporary Culture. New York: Macmillan, 1967. 41-51; Rpt. as in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 4: Additional Studies and Essays 1947-1996. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999. 55-68.

“Oral Residue in Tudor Prose Style.” PMLA 80.3 (1965): 145-54; Rpt. in Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971. 23-47; Rpt. in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 313-329.

“Breakthrough in Communications.” In the Human Grain: Further Explorations of Contemporary Culture. New York: Macmillan, 1967. 1-16.

“Literature, Written Transmission of.” The New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. Ed. William J. McDonald et. al. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. 833-838; Rpt. as "Written Transmission of Literature" in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 331-44.

The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History. New Haven: Yale UP, 1967.

“Knowledge in Time.” Knowledge and the Future of Man: An International Symposium. Ed. Walter J. Ong. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968. 3-38; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 1. Selected Essays and Studies, 1952-1991. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992. 127-53.

“World as View and World as Event.” American Anthropologist 71.4 (1969): 634-47; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 3: Further Essays, 1952-1990. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. 69-90.

“'I See What You Say': Sense Analogues for Intellect.” (1970); Rpt. in Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977. 122-44; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 3: Further Essays, 1952-1990. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. 91-111.

“Rhetoric and the Origins of Consciousness.” Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971. 1-22; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 4: Additional Studies and Essays 1947-1996. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999. 93-102.

“Media Transformation: The Talked Book.” College English 34.3 (1972): 405-10; Rpt in Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977. 82-91.

Why Talk?: A Conversation About Language with Walter J. Ong. (1973); Rpt. in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 363-403.

“The History and Future of Verbal Media.” Human Communication: Theoretical Explanations. Ed. Albert Silverstein. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1974. 165-83.

“The Writer's Audience is Always a Fiction.” PMLA 90.1 (1975): 9-22; Rpt. in Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977. 53-81; Rpt. in Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. Ed. Victor Villanueva, Jr. Urbana: NCTE, 1997. 55-76; Rpt. in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 405-27.

“Commonplace Rhapsody: Ravisius Textor, Zwinger, and Shakespeare.” Classical Influences on European Culture, A.D. 1500-1700. Ed. Robert R. Bolgar. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1976. 91-126; Rpt. as “Typographic Rhapsody: Ravisius Textor, Zwinger, and Shakespeare” in Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977. 147-188; Rpt. in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 429-63.

“From Mimesis to Irony: Writing and Print as Integuments of Voice.” Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977. 272-302.

“African Talking Drums and Oral Noetics.” New Literary History 8.3 (1977): 411-29; Rpt. in Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977. 92-120.

“Beyond Objectivity: The Reader-Writer Transaction as an Altered State of Consciousness.” The CEA Critic 40.1 (1977): 6-13; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 3: Further Essays, 1952-1990. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. 176-85.

“Communications as a Field of Study.” The 1977 Multimedia International Yearbook. Ed. Stefan Bamberger, S.J. Rome: Multimedia International, 1967. 7-25.

“From Rhetorical Culture to New Criticism: The Poem as a Closed Field.” The Possibilities of Order: Cleanth Brooks and His Works. Ed. Lewis P. Simpson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1976. 150-67. Rpt. as “The Poem as a Closed Field: The Once New Criticism and the Nature of Literature” in Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977. 213-229.

“Oral Culture and the Literate Mind.” Minority Language and Literature: Retrospective and Perspective. Ed. Dexter Fisher. New York: MLA, 1977. 134-49.

“Technology Outside Us and Inside Us.” Communio: International Catholic Review 5.2 (1978): 100-21; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 1. Selected Essays and Studies, 1952-1991. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992. 189-208.

“Literacy and Orality in Our Times.” ADE Bulletin. 58 (1978): 1-7. Rpt. in Profession 79 (1979): 1-7; Rpt. in The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook. 2nd ed. Ed. Gary Tate and Edward P.J. Corbett. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. 37-46; Rpt. in Landmark Essays in Rhetorical Invention in Writing. Ed. Richard E. Young and Yameg Liu. Davis: Hermagoras, 1994. 135-46; Rpt. in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 465-78.

While sometimes read as a defense of Thomas J. Farrell's “Literacy, the Basics, and All That Jazz” (College English 38 (1977): 443-59), I would suggest that this response that seeks to serve as a corrective to both Farrell and Farrell's critics.

Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1981.

“The Agonistic Base of Scientifically Abstract Thought: Issues in Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness.” (1982); Rpt. in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 479-95.

Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. 1982. London: Routledge, 2002.

“Writing is a Humanizing Technology.” ADE Bulletin 74 (1983): 13-16.

Gee, James Paul, and Walter J. Ong. “An Exchange on American Sign Language and Deaf Culture.” Language and Style 16.2 (1983): 234-37.

“Orality, Literacy, and Medieval Textualization.” New Literary History 16.1 (1984): 1-12.

“Writing and the Evolution of Consciousness.” Mosaic 18.1 (1985): 1-10; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 3: Further Essays, 1952-1990. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. 202-14.

Swearingen, C. Jan. “On Photographic 'Literacy': An Interview with Walter J. Ong.” Exposure 23.4 (1985): 19-27.

“Orality-Literacy Contrasts and the Current Critical Milieu.” Dieciocho: Hispanic Englightenment, Aesthetics, and Literary Theory 8.1 (1985): 80-89.

“Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought.” The Written Word: Literacy in Transition. Ed. Gerd Baumann. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. 23-50; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 4: Additional Studies and Essays 1947-1996. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999. 143-168.

Letter to Victor J. Vitanza, editor, of PRE/TEXT. PRE/TEXT 8.1-2 (1987): 155. - Response to Beth Daniell's “Against the Great Leap Theory of Literacy,” published in PRE/TEXT 7.3-4 (1986): 181-193.

“Text as Interpretation: Mark and After.” Oral Tradition in Literature: Interpretation in Context. Ed. John Miles Foley. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1986. 147-69. Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 2. Supplementary Studies. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992. 191-210.

“Orality-Literacy Studies and the Unity of the Human Race.” Oral Tradition 2 (1987): 371-82; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 1. Selected Essays and Studies, 1952-1991. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992. 209-18.

“A Comment on 'Arguing About Literacy'.” College English 50.6 (1988): 700-1. - Response to Patricia Bizzell's “Arguing About Literacy” published in College English 50.2 (1988): 141-52.

“Before Textuality: Orality and Interpretation.” Oral Tradition 3.3 (1988): 259-69; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 3: Further Essays, 1952-1990. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. 215-25.

“Samuel Johnson and the Printed Word.” Review 10 (1988): 97-112. Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 3: Further Essays, 1952-1990. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. 226-39.

Kleine, Michael, and Frederic Gale. “The Elusive Presence of the Word: An Interview with Walter Ong.” Forum 7.2 (1996): 65-86.

“Hermeneutic Forever: Voice, Text, Digitization, and the 'I.'” Oral Tradition 10.1 (1995): 3-36; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 4: Additional Studies and Essays 1947-1996. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999. 183-203.

“Information and/or Communication: Interactions.” Communication Research Trends 16.3 (1996): 3-16; Rpt. in Faith and Contexts. Vol. 4: Additional Studies and Essays 1947-1996. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999. 217-38; Rpt. in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 505-25.

“Digitization Ancient and Modern: Beginnings of Writing and Today's Computers.” Communication Research Trends 18.2 (1998): 4-21; Rpt. in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 527-49.

“Ecology and Some of Its Future.” Explorations in Media Ecology 1.1 (2002): 5-11.

*“Oralism to Online Thinking.” Explorations in Media Ecology 2.1 (2003): 43-4.

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